How to Recover Photos from Dead iPhone

WRITTEN BY Tina ON June 23, 2015

My iPhone 5s was dropped into water yesterday, and now it is water-damaged and completely out of battery. What’s worse, it cannot be charged or turned on and all my important photos are left in it. How can I get them back and put it into my current phone? I am pretty sure that my iPhone is dead. Can I recover the photos from iPhone backup files?

--Lucy

When it comes to dead iPhone, it means iPhones like these: broken iPhone, iPhone in recovery mode status, broken iPhone screen, iPhone system crash…If you iPhone has been dead, it must be a great trouble for you to restore data from the dead device. To fix this urgent issue, you must need a third-party program to help you. Here is my suggestion: iPhone Data Recovery.

iPhone Data Recovery works for users who are urgent to recover lost data including contacts, SMS, photos, videos, notes and more from iOS devices on both Windows or Mac. With the help of this powerful program, you can retrieve most of the files from iTunes or iCloud backup. This article will guide you how to recover photos from dead iPhone by restoring from iTunes or iCloud backup files.

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Method 1: Recover Photos from Dead iPhone via iTunes backups

Run iPhone Data Recovery on your computer. Then choose “Recover from iTunes Backup Files” on the homepage. Then select one iTunes backup file to scan by clicking “Start Scan”.

Step 2. Preview and recover photos from iTunes backup

After scanning for seconds, the program will show you all files in different categories. You can preview all photos by clicking on “Photos”, then choose the photos you want and go to “Recover” to save them on computer.

Note: You must have synced iPhone to iTunes previously if you use this method to recover photos on computer.

Method 2: Recover Photos from Dead iPhone with iCloud backups

Step 1: Sign in iCloud account after entering the program

Run iPhone Data Recover on your computer, then select “Recover from iCloud Backup Files”. Then you can log in iCloud account by entering your Apple ID and password.

Step 2: Download iCloud backup file

When log in iCloud, all backup files will be displayed automatically on your computer. Choose the one you want and click on “Download”. After that, you need to wait 3 to 5 minutes or more to finish the downloading process.

Step 3: Preview and recover photos from iCloud backup file

When all files have been downloaded, you can preview photos, text messages, call history and other data one by one. To recover photos, you can go directly to “Photos” and choose the photos you like from the list, then go to “Recover” to save them on your computer.

Have iPhone Data Recovery solved your issued yet? If your dead iPhone can still be recognized by the computer, you can also try this method: How to Recover Photos from iPhone Directly. Please note that when using iPhone Data Recovery, all iPhone models including iPhone 3gs, iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are available to recover lost data on computer.